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<br />DELANEY & BALCOMH. P. C. <br /> <br />...nOIl(NE". AT l.....W <br /> <br />D.....'. '.0 <br /> <br />GLZ"'.....OOD SPRIN(ttl. CoLORADO ll1'lO~ <br /> <br />_0".' DIU....I.. <br />..(...11(.... .-"co... <br />.or C:O..,...II.". <br /> <br />.10...... '''\oII.SO- <br />1:0__lil:D ..\,,11,,...,,... .III. <br />SCOTT "LCO"'. <br />........r...Cc: _ O.Sr.... <br />.Olt.,... .00"'11: <br /> <br />.', c:OLO....OQ ..."C""III: <br /> <br />"(L[_"UI'U. ~."'Cl""'C <br />TCr.r.CO.'[. ."" ..~4' <br /> <br />'10"0'."., '''V,"'Olit <br />1.<:1_1.1._, .....,...'C"O <br />[0.....1:1 .. C..NI[..-I <br /> <br />November 11, 1996 <br /> <br />..1._ COOE "0 <br /> <br />wesley Signs, President . <br />Colorado River Water Conservation District <br />P.O. Box 764 <br />Hayden, CO 81639 <br /> <br />ReI Case NoS. 95CW296. 95CW297. CWCB <br />lIS-Mile Reach. Colorado Riverl <br /> <br />Dear Hr. Signs and Board Membersl <br /> <br />On behalf of SilverCreek Holding Company ("SilverCreek"), I <br />am writing to express its concerns about the potential effect of <br />the 9SCW296 and 9SCW297 applications upon colorado River water <br />users and Silvercreek specificallY, and to request the Colorado <br />River Water Conservation District to assist the water users. <br />silvercreek isa party objector in these cases. AS you are <br />aware, these applications (when and if decreed) will allow the <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) to control all the <br />remaining "unappropriated" water in the river basin. These <br />appropriations are likely to restrain new water development <br />projects and even existing projects. <br /> <br />I~ r::C' ""'-"'" ,-- .,- ,,,~ <br />.ih # ;:;..,. I:.. .~.. ;;:r~", <br />." \ _"'0'" ..': ,~ 'I " <br />fl,..-" J .. { , , <br />\ ,: <br />! " <br />.NOV 2 7 1996 <br /> <br />COLrJj~r"."I:t', ....".. <br />COH3eBlA TX>I i)I6 TIlle I <br /> <br />SilverCreek requests the River District to take an active <br />role in these cases to evaluate the need (if any) for the filings <br />claimed and to Dressure the United States Fish and Wildlife <br />Service ("service-) to confirm that the decrees entered will <br />avoid Section 7 consultations. silverCreek believes CRWCD is the <br />best positioned governmental entity to raise and establish a <br />physical or biological "defense" to the 95Cw296 and 95CW297 <br />appropriations. ' <br /> <br />SilverCreek has been advised of several legal defects which <br />may prevent or limit the CWCB'B claimed appropriations, but it is <br />still disturbed by what it perceives is a thin biological basis <br />for the claimed flows. The CWCB and Service seek to persuade <br />other water users that the base flow (95CW297) and recovery flow <br />(95CW296) will promote recovery of the endangered fish, but they <br />have not provided the objectors with any conclusive evidence to <br />this effect. The Service and cweB have thus far failed to <br />address the exotic fish competition question and prove the <br />